Monday, May 20, 2013

History

One of the things that was pretty cool about Glubbdubdrib was that any person living there could call upon a deceased person to serve them for a day. I thought it was interesting that Swift implies during his time talking to Homer and Aristotle and the many other ancient Europeans and Greeks that history has been written incorrectly. I think Swift is trying to tell the reader that they can believe history all they want, but that doesn't mean it is true. And Swift mentions that some of the "victors" in history were just prostitutes, peasants or people who need help. This tells the reader that they should only trust people and history that have come from truthful childhoods and lives where they work for morally good objectives.

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